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The 8th Annual SLanguages Symposium takes place this coming weekend on EduNation Island in the Virtual World of Second Life. Anyone is welcome to attend!! If you have an interest in language learning in virtual and gaming environments this may be a good conference to attend. …

Join us for a series of workshops aimed at teachers interested in teaching in the Virtual World Second Life. All workshops are free and open to the public. These workshops assume basic proficiency in SL (knowing how to move, access your inventory, etc.).

Join us for a series of workshops aimed at teachers interested in teaching in the Virtual World Second Life. All workshops are free and open to the public. These workshops assume basic proficiency in SL (knowing how to move, access your inventory, etc.).

"The 8th annual VWBPE conference starts 18th March to 21st March 2015 in Second Life. This is another call out for volunteers to sign up. Training for Volunteers starts in early March 2015 for most positions. Information about training, schedule-sign ups and events will…

(summarising from the Educators' mailing list. It is not clear who set up the survey, the post is signed

Serenek Timeless (SL)/Kathy Spoehr (RL))

there is a survey taking place, which is aimed at giving Linden Lab a prioritised list of features/characteristics that are important and necessary to educators in the "next generation" virtual world platform the Lab is currently developing.

(I know it's late :( I only found out about it now ... and I'm really sorry I missed it! There may be a way to get it recorded though)

On 15 October I and Marshall Dozier, University of Edinburgh, will be presenting a talk which will be livestreamed. It is entitled *Social, ethical, digital: issues in 3D worlds research* and we will actually be delivering the talk within Second Life, delivered via a skype screenshare (and then livestreamed). Our talk is scheduled to start at 2.05pm UK…

The conference started with a day of workshops and our MACHINIMA videos one was amongst those :) The experience was challenging (you know ... technology ;) ) but I'm delighted to report that WE WON over the computer lab! :)

A HUGE THANK you to ALINA HORLESCU for her really interesting and informative workshop and thanks to CHRISTEL SCHNEIDER who helped out and kept a great record of all our work.

This is from the SL notecard:Come join Randall's advanced workshop on how to create holodecks on Sun, 6 July 8pm GMT/ 1pm SLT This workshop is a continuation of the first one and it builds on previous know-how. If you missed it here is the link for the recording.

San Jose State University Graduate School of Library and InformationScience and VCARA (Virtual Center for Archives and Records Management) issponsoring and hosting ?The Many Faces of Immersive Learning,? a freeconference in the virtual world of Second Life and other…